This small book, often called “The Survivor’s Haggadah,” is not a Haggadah proper. Rather, it is a Passover service created for a gathering of Jewish U.S. servicemen and survivors in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Composed and designed by Yosef Sheinson, a survivor of Dachau, it includes elements of the traditional Passover Haggadah, mostly modified, but it also includes new poems and readings (some in Yiddish), along with haunting prints by Miklos Adler. Both the text and the artwork of the book echo the questions that those gathering in Munich must have had, connecting the recent horror with themes of past oppression of Jews. No participant could have been unmoved ty the service. 

In this image, which illustrates the Haggadah’s line, “not only one has arisen to destroy us,” a Nazi guard is show standing over several murdered Jews who were, just moments before, part of large mass of Jews being led to their deaths.